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The Astronaut Wives Club: A True Story by Lily Koppel | Conversation Starters A Brief Look Inside: EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive, and the characters and its world still live on. Conversation...

**The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim and Kevin Behr: Conversation Starters ** IT manager Bill Palmer is tasked to handle the over-budgeted and way delayed Phoenix Project. His company needs the Project to help revive its failing fortunes....

Summary, Analysis & Review of Brad Stone’s The Everything Store by Instaread   Preview:   The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon recounts the rise of Amazon since it was founded in 1994. Simultaneously, the book is a partial biography of the company’s...

Summary of Chaos Monkeys by Antonio Garcia Martinez | Includes Analysis   Preview:   Chaos Monkeys is a memoir of Antonio Garcia Martinez’s time working as a coder at Goldman Sachs, as a startup employee and founder, and as a product manager at Facebook. Martinez...

Summary of Disrupted by Dan Lyons | Includes Analysis   Preview: Disrupted by Dan Lyons is a memoir about Lyons’s experiences as a middle-aged career journalist who takes a job in marketing at a startup. For years, Lyons wrote for Newsweek about technology and was well-known...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Alexander Hamilton tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ron Chernow’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This...

Summary of The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf | Includes Analysis   Preview: The Invention of Nature by Andrea Wulf is a biography of Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian naturalist born in 1769. Humboldt had an older brother, Wilhelm. Their father died when...

Summary of Game of Crowns by Christopher Andersen | Includes Analysis   Preview: Game of Crowns: Elizabeth, Camilla, Kate, and the Throne by Christopher Andersen blends historical narrative with an in-depth account of the personal lives of members of the British royal family....

This is a Summary of Robert Kegan & Lisa Lahey’s An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental OrganizationA Radical New Model for Unleashing Your Company’s PotentialIn most organizations nearly everyone is doing a second job no one is paying them for—namely, covering...

This is a Summary of Dave Ramsey’s book, 'The Total Money Makeover'. It is based on his personal life experiences, since he became a millionaire and then four years after that became bankrupt. He says that before a problem can be solved, a person has to admit that there is a problem. His...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Contagious tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Jonah Berger’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This short...

Unlock the more straightforward side of Of Mice and Men with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck, which follows two ranch workers, George and Lennie, as they look for work in California during the...

ABOUT THE BOOK I’d stumbled upon Randy Pausch, a youngish professor from Carnegie Mellon University, quite by accident in 2011. I’d been looking for a good PowerPoint presentation about time management, and the one he gave was deemed to be really interesting, according to the Google...

So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Sympathizer tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Viet Thanh Nguyen’s book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.   This...